Fantagraphics Books Inc.
Available: 09/01/07
10 x 8 · 344 pages
978-1-56097-869-5 CDN $32.95 · cl

Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips Vol. 1

“Through the Wild Blue Wonder”

Walt Kelly

Designed by Reuben Award winner Jeff Smith, the creator of Bone, this volume begins a definitive 12-volume series reprinting Walt Kelly’s legendary Pogo comic strip from 1949 to 1973. Volume one reprints the first two years.

Kelly’s strip blended nonsense, poetry and political and social satire. Many Canadian readers of a certain age will remember Pogo fondly from it running in the following newspapers: the Vancouver Province, Midland Free Press, Montreal Star, Montreal Standard (Sunday), Trail Times, Halifax Herald, St. Catharine’s Standard, Calgary Albertan, Winnipeg Tribune, Saskatoon Star Phoenix, Regina Leader Post, Peterborough Examiner, Kingston Whig, Hamilton Spectator, Victoria Colonist, Belleville Intelligencer, New Brunswick Pub. Co. (Sunday), Toronto Telegram (Sunday) and Ottawa Journal.

WALT KELLY (1913–73) was a Disney animator before creating the legendary Pogo and Our Gang comic strips.